We had visited
the bridge earlier, as a part of Adyar river walk. This bridge was constructed
on the river Adyar bridging Mambalam with Guindy Rajbhavan area. Originally
there was an old stone bridge and latter
an Armenian Merchant called Coja Petrvs Uscan, re-constructed the bridge at a
cost of 30000 pagodas and also he donated 1500 pagodas towards upkeep. For the
full details please visit my post on Marmalong Bridge in my blog.
Also
for further reading please refer my facebook post with comments.

The
small obelisk like pillar between the new CMRL pillars must the remains of the
old bridge constructed Coja Petrvs Uscan

TEACHERS TRAINING COLLEGE

The teachers
training college, Second of its kind in India when started in the year 1856 as
a school at Vepery under the guidance of Alexander Arbuthnot. Then it was
shifted to the present location in Todhunter Nagar in the year 1888, as a College on the banks of
river Adyar. This College produced two
eminent personalities who latter became presidents of India namely Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Mr R. Venkatraman.The silver tongued Mr Srinivasa Sastri
also from this college, once he corrected the pronunciation of his British
principal. Now the structure was taken over by The Chennai metro rail and the same is in a state of neglect &
dilapidated condition.

Karine Hrtalso explained the first agricultural
college established in the year 1868, in an area of 30 acres where the
cosmopolitan golf course now functioning. The college had done the experiments of
growing wheat., cotton. The college was moved to Coimbatore latter.Experiments also carried out the coloring
dyes from the cactus bugs for the cloths used by the British army. For further
details please refer my facebook page for the post with comments.

PANAGAL MALIGAI.

This building can
be viewed from Marmalong Bridge
(Saidapet Bridge). The Head quarters
of Chengalpattu District was functioning on the same place. This
building was named after Raja of Panagal, a Zamindar of Kalahasthi, leader of
Justice party and the Chief minister of
Madras Presidency from 1921 to 1926. For further reading please refer Wikipedia about Raja_of_Panagal

Mahar Bhavan and
Mehar Baba ashram are opposite to each other on the Brahmin street in west
Saidapet near the Karaneeswarar market
Sub Way. His original name was Merwan Sheriar Irani and he was born in 1894 in Pune India to Irani Zoroastrian parents ( A parsi
parents ). At the age of 19, he began a seven-year spiritual transformation. During
this time he contacted five spiritual masters before beginning his own mission
and gathering his own disciples in early 1922, at the age of 27. He was brought
to Madras Madras by Mr Sampath Iyangar, A Judge of Andhra District of then
Madras Presidency. Meher Baba practiced silence in his life and communicated
through gestures or writing on boards. He visited Madras three times during his
life time. For further reading please visit the Wikipedia page under Meher_Baba